County: Limerick Site name: BISHOP STREET, NEWCASTLEWEST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 36:72 Licence number: 04E1667
Author: Sheila Lane, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 528044m, N 633981m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.452550, -9.058635
Monitoring of the ground-reduction works was undertaken within this development site. The site was reduced to a depth of 0.25–0.3m below modern ground level by a mechanical excavator. Parts of the site appeared to have been disturbed previously, especially at the westernmost limit. A dark-brown topsoil, c. 0.25m deep, was generally removed to reveal a yellow clay subsoil. The stratigraphy in the northern central section differed. Here a dark-brown topsoil, c. 0.15m deep, was removed to reveal a grey mixed clay that contained sherds of 19th- and 20th-century glazed red earthenware and porcelain. No finds or features of an archaeological nature were noted.
